Word Finder - disfigured

definition

Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

example

The burnings disfigured his face.

His emaciated young face, disfigured by the half-shaven head, hung down hopelessly.

Half her face was disfigured.

Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes.

According to Freeman, "the work is disfigured by his constant spirit of violent partisanship."

The cliffs and woods have been so far disfigured by quarries that public feeling was aroused, and in 1904 an "Avon Gorge Committee" was appointed to report to the corporation of Bristol on the possibility of preserving the beauties of the locality.

They have little value from a purely literary point of view, and many of them are disfigured by the grossest obscenity.

His body was picked up three days afterwards, so disfigured that it was only recognized by the star on his coat.

Their habits were simple, and they were disfigured neither by the worst crimes nor by the primitive superstitition of savages.

Cleavage sheets are frequently disfigured and rendered of little value by brown, red or black spots and stains, often with a dendritic arrangement of iron oxides.

The classification of the Methodus was extended and improved in the Historia plantarum, but was disfigured by a large class of Anomalae, to include forms that the other orders did not easily admit, and by the separation of the cereals from other grasses.

In 1849 Abd-el-Latif Pasha became governor-general and attempted to remedy some of the evils which disfigured the administration.

We can't let them see how horribly, horribly disfigured you are.

The latter is a brick building of the 13th and 14th centuries, with a choir in the Romanesque style, and a fine western portal which has been much disfigured.

He once dreamed her naked torso was horribly disfigured by a giant birthmark but the truth was more likely childlike modesty kept in check by a general arrogance that forbade her to admit anything deemed to be a weakness.

The hotel could have been finished and the wild and glorious landscape disfigured by a gleaming white testament to rampant tourism.

As he has disfigured a man, so shall he be disfigured a man, so shall he be disfigured.

Changing Faces helps facially disfigured people to express themselves with more confidence, and combat many of their anxieties and negative feelings.

The picture could then be turned around and be hideously disfigured into a resemblance of what you will eventually turn into.

In fact in 1998 alone 2913 children were killed or injured in house fires with many more being permanently disfigured through burning or scalding.

Who had been severely disfigured in a car accident that was the fault of a drunken driver.

You have a bear of a man all disfigured on a violent rampage of revenge.

Some poems have been lost; others are fragmentary; and many are more or less disfigured by corruption and disarrangement.

Even in the existing versions of the letters, translated from the lost originals and retranslated from this translation of a text which was probably destroyed in 1603 by order of King James on his accession to the English throne - even in these possibly disfigured versions, the fiery pathos of passion, the fierce and piteous fluctuations of spirit between love and hate, hope and rage and jealousy, have an eloquence apparently beyond the imitation or invention of art (see Casket Letters 1).

Robert contracted smallpox as a child, surviving disfigured and scarred.

People who have had mouth cancer may be terribly disfigured and unable to speak normally.

Children or adolescents who are severely disfigured by facial injuries may require extra reassurance from family members as well as professional counseling in order to cope with their changed appearance.

The fleshy tissue around the pierced area may weaken and tear, leading for example, to a badly disfigured earlobe.

In the urban legends, Mary Worth or Worthington was brutally disfigured before she was murdered.

She may appear as a blur in the corner of your eye, but if you look closely, you will see a disfigured woman watching you from the shadows.

A victim, horribly disfigured by a bus accident, was brought into the E.R. and it took hours before he was able to communicate to Meredith that it was George.

The people themselves are described as of " middle height, broadchested and muscular, with remarkably large hands and feet, the eyes large, the forehead round, and not narrow or receding in many instances, the nose broad, the mouth large and disfigured with betel."

His character, notwithstanding the egotism by which it was disfigured, had an amiable and engaging side.

The Romanesque church of St Gertrude, named after Itta's daughter, dates from the II th century, but has been badly restored and is disfigured by a heavy tower.

But of late years the beauties of the Rhine have become sadly marred; the banks in places, especially between Coblenz and Bonn, disfigured by quarrying, the air made dense with the smoke of cement factories and steam-tugs, commanding spots falling a prey to the speculative builder and villages growing into towns.

No new skill was developed, and what remained of the old was expended chiefly upon the manufacture of meretricious objects, disfigured by excess of decoration and not relieved by any excellence of technique.

His prose writings gained great reputation in their own day, and long afterwards, but are disfigured by apparent straining after effect, and by frequent puerility and circumlocution.

Queen Elizabeth, with the almost incredible want of tact or instinctive delicacy which distinguished and disfigured her vigorous intelligence, had recently proposed as a suitor to the queen of Scots her own low-born favourite, Lord Robert Dudley, the widower if not the murderer of Amy Robsart; and she now protested against the project of marriage between Mary and Darnley.

One of these is the portrait of Frederick the Wise of Saxony, formerly in the Hamilton collection and now at Berlin; the second, much disfigured by restoration, is the Dresden altarpiece with a Madonna and Child in the middle and St Anthony and Sebastian in the wings.

It is useless to follow Boehme further, for his cosmogony is disfigured by a wild Paracelsian symbolism, and his constructive efforts in general are full of the uncouth straining of an untrained writer.

He was not responsible for the cruel persecution by which the reign was disfigured.

On the 8th of March 1722 the richly dressed hosts of Persia appeared before the little band of Afghans, who were scorched and disfigured by their long marches.

What remains of Walter's building is a rich example of the Christian-Saracen style, disfigured, unfortunately, by the addition of a totally unsuitable dome by Ferinando Fuga in 1781-1801.

The block of marble now badly disfigured lay idle for years.

They meet a woman who used so much skin bleaching cream that she was left disfigured.

These, being no longer stoved in an inverted position, as had been the habit before Shirozaemons time, were not disfigured by the bare, blistered lips of their predecessors.

The writings of Cassiodorus evince great erudition, ingenuity and labour, but are disfigured by incorrectness and an affected artificiality, and his Latin partakes much of the corruptions of the age.

In these circumstances his accession could not have the political importance which would otherwise have attached to it, though it was disfigured by a vicious outburst of party passion in which the names of the emperor and the empress were constantly misused.

The Gospel and the First Epistle are written in correct and flowing Greek, and there is not a barbarism, a solecism, or a provincialism in them; whereas the Greek of the Apocalypse is inaccurate, disfigured by unusual or foreign words and even at times by solecisms."

Diihring's clear, incisive writing is disfigured by arrogance and ill-temper, failings which may be extenuated on the ground of his physical affliction.

European children born in the country are apt to be seriously disfigured, as in their case the boils almost invariably appear on the face, and whereas native children have as a rule but one boil, those born of European parents will have several.